A 60-minute podcast in which Author Andrew Buckley joins Kelsey and Kaisha to discuss the writing humor, reading The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and adopting the devil incarnate. He also shares some tips on landing an agent and getting out into the world as a writer. Diversity of options available to writers. Andrew gives…

Today is Kelsey’s birthday. Kaisha queries her with all manner of bookish questions, and they find themselves on all manner of random tangents from Immaculate Conception to lazy research. Don’t miss their discussions about shooting off butt cheeks, cow research, finding experts for book research, and turtles crapping through their eyeballs. Kaisha asks Kelsey the…

A 60-minute podcast in which Author Nick Dybek joins Kelsey to discuss the books that impacted him the most as a writer. He also shares his writing process, discusses his bad writing habits, and talks about the tenacity required to make it as a writer. Don’t miss it. Nick’s debut novel, When Captain Flint Was…

A 30-minute episode in which we discuss what makes a good book review, learning how to put down books that are not for us, and the literary allusions that drive us nutty. Welcome to Read.Write.Repeat. This month we will be giving away an advanced reader copy of The Vengeance of Mothers by Jim Fergus. We…

A 60-minute episode in which we discuss parrots and the holy spirit, Flaubert’s simple, beautiful language, the importance of being a cow whisperer, and how we will not ship to Neptune. Kaisha talks about what books used bookstores are looking for, what not to bring them, and shares a few horror stories. Kelsey discusses the…

A 30-minute tangent episode in which we discuss how Kaisha’s Booker reading is going, her thoughts on The Underground Railroad, and the massive pile of fantasy novels she fell into. We circle around to Proust, our favorite classics, Stream of Consciousness, and why we read Faulkner. I talk about subverting narrative elements and the one…

A 60-minute episode in which we discuss flamboyant dandyism in “The Crimson Curtain” by Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly and contrast that with the everything-sucks-ism of postmodern literature. Kaisha talks about her squirrel stash of books and Kelsey delves into the misconception that indie publishing is easier than traditional publishing. We explore what humanity will look like…

A 30-minute tangent episode in which we obsess over the good, the bad, and the ugly of book movies. Come along as we ponder character descriptions, icky tropes, unusual visualizations, and bad adaptations. Kaisha talks about her struggles when reading science fiction and Kelsey dreams about the perfect movie adaptation of her favorite Dean Koontz…

A 60-minute full episode in which we discuss the devil in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown” and what Star Trek’s Nomad character has in common with Modernist Literature. Kaisha talks about the classic book she’s been meaning to read for years, I talk about my dangerous technique of pickling parts of my manuscript, and we…

A 15-minute bonus episode in which Kaisha obsesses over the booker longlist and discusses her reading strategy for this overambitious goal with the determination of Napoleon riding into battle, her marriage bookshelf as a portrait of the state of her marriage, and the importance of reading books outside of her normal reading patterns. Welcome to…

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